This women got 20 years for a warning shot. She probably wishes she instead chose to shoot him in the face. Either way, what you are suggesting actually makes using a gun on a human being easier. The law says, if you are going to use a gun for defensive purposes, you need to fear for your life. If you make shooting people in the leg acceptable, or even preferred, what ends up happening is dramatically increasing the scenarios in which discharging a gun is okay, and as a additional side effect, a whole lot of people will end up getting murdered because a gun wound in the leg didn't stop a violent criminal.
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This women got 20 years for a warning shot. She probably wishes she instead chose to shoot him in the face. Either way, what you are suggesting actually makes using a gun on a human being easier. The law says, if you are going to use a gun for defensive purposes, you need to fear for your life. If you make shooting people in the leg acceptable, or even preferred, what ends up happening is dramatically increasing the scenarios in which discharging a gun is okay, and as a additional side effect, a whole lot of people will end up getting murdered because a gun wound in the leg didn't stop a violent criminal.